The suite of works examines the human condition through the metaphor of the body in all its strengths and frailties. Stripped of its outer casing, contemporary life in urban India is marked by an intense psychological isolation, where images of comfort, intimacy and rest have been displaced by a sense of detachment, anxiety and apprehension. 'Traversing Terrains reflects the claustrophobic decadent existence and trauma of movement of the 'urban hybrid' and his aspirations. The work essentially plays around the notion of the 'injured self' and the self 'armored against hurt'.
'The Pregnant Seahorse' is a personal meditation on the passage of natures's cycle and the temporal flow of birth and regeneration. The human body is vulnerable, ephemeral. The work portrays the artists' body as a site of history, memory and transformation. The images are at once, generative and sensuous, macabre and degenerative, opulent and awe-inspiring, carrying within them the vitality of the living and the vulnerability of decay. The image of the sea horse is depicted in the works as a metaphor of sexual role reversal, where the male carries the offspring through gestation.

Excerpts from 'India Awakens: Under The Banyan Tree' published by Essl Museum of Contemporary Art, Austria, 2010.